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Main Authors: Enevoldsen, Kenneth, Jessen, Emil Trenckner, Baglini, Rebekah
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18209
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author Enevoldsen, Kenneth
Jessen, Emil Trenckner
Baglini, Rebekah
author_facet Enevoldsen, Kenneth
Jessen, Emil Trenckner
Baglini, Rebekah
contents Named entity recognition is one of the cornerstones of Danish NLP, essential for language technology applications within both industry and research. However, Danish NER is inhibited by a lack of available datasets. As a consequence, no current models are capable of fine-grained named entity recognition, nor have they been evaluated for potential generalizability issues across datasets and domains. To alleviate these limitations, this paper introduces: 1) DANSK: a named entity dataset providing for high-granularity tagging as well as within-domain evaluation of models across a diverse set of domains; 2) DaCy 2.6.0 that includes three generalizable models with fine-grained annotation; and 3) an evaluation of current state-of-the-art models' ability to generalize across domains. The evaluation of existing and new models revealed notable performance discrepancies across domains, which should be addressed within the field. Shortcomings of the annotation quality of the dataset and its impact on model training and evaluation are also discussed. Despite these limitations, we advocate for the use of the new dataset DANSK alongside further work on the generalizability within Danish NER.
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spellingShingle DANSK and DaCy 2.6.0: Domain Generalization of Danish Named Entity Recognition
Enevoldsen, Kenneth
Jessen, Emil Trenckner
Baglini, Rebekah
Computation and Language
Named entity recognition is one of the cornerstones of Danish NLP, essential for language technology applications within both industry and research. However, Danish NER is inhibited by a lack of available datasets. As a consequence, no current models are capable of fine-grained named entity recognition, nor have they been evaluated for potential generalizability issues across datasets and domains. To alleviate these limitations, this paper introduces: 1) DANSK: a named entity dataset providing for high-granularity tagging as well as within-domain evaluation of models across a diverse set of domains; 2) DaCy 2.6.0 that includes three generalizable models with fine-grained annotation; and 3) an evaluation of current state-of-the-art models' ability to generalize across domains. The evaluation of existing and new models revealed notable performance discrepancies across domains, which should be addressed within the field. Shortcomings of the annotation quality of the dataset and its impact on model training and evaluation are also discussed. Despite these limitations, we advocate for the use of the new dataset DANSK alongside further work on the generalizability within Danish NER.
title DANSK and DaCy 2.6.0: Domain Generalization of Danish Named Entity Recognition
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18209